21810351 - CULTURE IN FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

The course is offered to students who have at least an elementary knowledge of the language (A2). It focuses on the familiarization with authors and texts belonging to the modern and contemporary French and Francophone linguistic and cultural field. In particular, the analysis of significant works in the original language will allow to develop the ability to understand morphosyntactic aspects of French language and dynamics relating to social and cultural French-speaking world from the twentieth century to today.

Expected learning outcomes: students will develop their basic language skills and will be able to rework disciplinary elements and themes in an intercultural context.

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Fruizione: 21810359 LINGUA, CULTURA E ISTITUZIONI DEI PAESI DI LINGUA FRANCESE in Politiche, cooperazione e sviluppo L-37 A - L SPANDRI FRANCESCO

Programme

The course is offered to all students.

It will focus on: “Literature, economy and society in France after the Revolution of 1848”.

The course will tackle these topics through the analysis of Émile Zola's novel “L’Assommoir” (1877).

Core Documentation

1) Zola, “L’Assommoir”, introduction, notes et commentaires de Jacques Dubois, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 1996 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Zola, “Le roman expérimental”, dans Le roman expérimental, présentation par François-Marie Mourad, Paris, Flammarion, 2006 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

3) “Il romanzo francese dell’Ottocento”, Anna Maria Scaiola, ed., Bari, Laterza, 2008, chapter V (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) “Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789”, présentation par Jacques Godechot, édition corrigée et mise à jour par Hervé Faupin, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2006, chapters IX, X, XI (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

5) Jacques Dubois, "Émile Zola", in "Les romanciers du réel", Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2000 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Grammar Texts (optional):
1) Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, “Grammaire progressive du français” (niveau avancé), Paris, Clé International, 2012
Or
2) Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, “Savoir-dire, savoir-faire” (niveaux B1/B2), Bologna, Zanichelli 2008
Or
3) Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, “Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)”, Hoepli, 2017

Type of delivery of the course

Lessons (held on site) in french language.

Attendance

Attendance is optional.

Type of evaluation

Written exam in May or oral exam (in the following sessions).

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Fruizione: 21810359 LINGUA, CULTURA E ISTITUZIONI DEI PAESI DI LINGUA FRANCESE in Politiche, cooperazione e sviluppo L-37 M - Z TARQUINI VALENTINA

Programme

The program is divided into three parts. A first theoretical part will illustrate, in a diachronic key, the morphosyntactic foundations of modern French and some essential phases in the evolution of the French language. A second part will focus on institutional relations between France and the French-speaking world, with particular attention paid to the question of language in the French-speaking South (Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific region). Finally, a third part will focus on the linguistic and discursive analysis of enunciation in the transnational context and will be carried out on a selection of authentic texts indicated in the program and available on Moodle. All texts studied in class will be part of the exam.
There will also be language exercises at CLA for the refinement of written and oral language skills, through workshops and multimedia tools to develop communicative skills according to different learning styles. Since these exercises are an integral part of the training program and aim at obtaining B1 certification, a prerequisite for the exam, students and undergraduates are invited to perfect their position by acquiring in advance the calendar of lessons and the dates of the tests administered at the CLA to pass the language tests.

Core Documentation

Textbook on the history of language (chapters indicated required):
1) Lise Gauvin, "La fabrique de la langue. De François Rabelais à Réjean Ducharme", Paris, Seuil, 2004, ch. I, III, VII, VIII (pocket edition or downloadable chapters on Moodle).

Required texts (in any format):
2) Thomas Sankara/Jean Zigler, "Discours sur la dette", Bruxelles, L’Esprit du Temps, coll. Quoi de neuf ?, 2017 (or any other edition).
3) Fatou Diome, "Marianne porte plainte!", Paris, Flammarion, 2017 (also available in Ebook).

Required critical readings and essays (downloadable on Moodle):
4) Frantz Fanon, "Peau noire, masques blancs", Paris, Seuil, 1952 (ch. 1: "Le Noir et le langage", pp. 13-32) (downloadable on Moodle).
5) François Provenzano, ch. 2 : "Qu’est-ce que la francodoxie?" (pp. 55-70) et ch. 4 : "Explorations périphériques" (pp. 93-135) in "Vies et mort de la francophonie. Une politique française de la langue et de la littérature", Bruxelles, Les impressions nouvelles, coll. Réflexions faites, 2011 (downloadable on Moodle).
6) Ruth Amossy, "La présentation de soi. Ethos et identité verbale", Paris, PUF, 2010 (downloadable chapters on Moodle).

Grammar textbooks recommended for practicing language skills (not in the exam schedule):
1) Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, “Grammaire progressive du français” (niveau avancé), Paris, Clé International, 2012.
Or
2) Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, “Savoir-dire, savoir-faire” (niveaux B1/B2), Zanichelli 2008.
Or
3) Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, “Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)”, Hoepli, 2017 (materiali didattici e "corrigés" scaricabili sul sito ufficiale).

Type of delivery of the course

The course consists of face-to-face and distance learning lessons in French aimed at the acquisition of fundamental knowledge for the achievement of the training objectives.

Attendance

Optional

Type of evaluation

The exam consists of a written test at the end of the course or, alternatively, an oral exam during the regular exam sessions. An "exposé" in French is foreseen, but optional.